Patch to aclocal

[Philip Willoughby]

Hi,

At our site we have a repository for experimental apps which are not as
fully tested as we would like, or not entirely compatible with the version
we have installed by default.

Unfortunately since we have a fairly old base system this means that
autoconf, automake, libtool et al have to live in this area.

I've built a script to set up the user's environment to include the latest
versions of the packages they want, it modifies CPATH, PATH,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to make sure
everything works.  Unfortunately I couldn't find an env var to modify the
search path for aclocal, so I patched it myself to add the support I
wanted.

Here's the patch - I added 4 lines, 2 of which are comments, one of which
is entirely self-serving ;-).  Can it be in 1.7.4?

diff -r -b -u -U 3 1.7.3/bin/aclocal 1.7.3-phil1/bin/aclocal
--- 1.7.3/bin/aclocal   Thu Feb 20 19:55:32 2003
+++ 1.7.3-phil1/bin/aclocal     Wed Mar  5 13:01:19 2003
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 # 02111-1307, USA.

 # Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>.
+# Slightly hacked on by Philip Willoughby <address@hidden>.

 BEGIN
 {
@@ -218,6 +219,9 @@
        close (DEFAULT_DIRLIST);
     }

+    # Allow the ACLOCALPATH environment variable to influence the search
paths
+    push (@dirlist, split (/:/, "$ENV{ACLOCALPATH}"))
+       if defined ($ENV{ACLOCALPATH});

     return @dirlist;
 }

Ta for some great software,

Regards,

Philip Willoughby

Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK
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